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rickets and bronchitis (with convulsions). The
child improved slightly, increasing in weight
whilst being fed upon the milk—the slightness of
the improvement being due to the fact that the
child came from a bad tubercular stock.
(5) A. N., aged 4 months, was first put upon the depot
milk on the 21st April, 1906, suffering from very
bad eczema and deep corneal ulcers. The child
improved greatly whilst being fed upon the milk
from 21 st April to 17th August, the eczema disappearing,
the corneal ulcers healing, and the weight
increasing.
(.Further Report presented to the Council on Jan. 31 st, 1907.)
A Statement has been prepared by the Borough Accountant
of the expenses connected with the establishment and
maintenance, up to date, of the Lambeth Infants' Milk
Depot.
The depot was opened to the public on 12th February,
1906, so that the maintenance account for the six months
ended 30th September, 1906, fairly represents the cost of
working the Milk Depot, and is within the estimate (£200)
prepared by me, and presented to, and approved by, the
Council on 14th July, 1904. (Vide Minutes 1904, pages
1,542 and 1,543.)
The expenses for the six months amount, according to the
Acountant's Statement, to £197 8s. 5d., and the income for
the same half-year amounts to £106 is. 3d., leaving a net
balance of expenditure in excess of income of £91 7s. 2d.
This is a satisfactory result, and shews the economical lines
upon which the Milk Depot is being run, and the careful
management that is being exercised in connection therewith.
It will be noted from the Accountant's Statement that a sum
of £64 15s. 3d. has been expended for milk, cream, and
sugar, for which there has been a return by sales of a sum
of £89 17s. 3d., i.e., a profit of £25 2s., or (nearly) 40 per
cent. These figures represent (roughly) the feeding of a
weekly average of 37 infants for six months, with the dis-